RUTH J. ROUSE

Graveside services will be held Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at 10 a.m. from Fairview Cemetery with the Rev. Jerry Mitchell and the Rev. Karl Grant officiating.

Mrs. Rouse was born in Lenoir County to the late James Emmett Jones and Lucy Brothers Jones. She was preceded in death by her husband, Philip W. Rouse.

Mrs. Rouse graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in library science. She was a retired librarian with Lenoir County Public Schools and was a lifelong member of LaGrange United Methodist Church.